Bio: Rondorf, Janet (Betty Crocker Homemaker – 1957)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Rondorf

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 07 Feb 1957

Janet Rondorf has been named the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow in Greenwood (Clark Co., Wis.).

She received the highest score in a written examination on homemaking knowledge and attitudes, taken by graduating girls in Greenwood High School.

Her examination paper now will be entered in competition with those of 350 other school winners to name this state's candidate for the title of All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow and will also be considered for the runner-up award in the state. For her achievement she will receive an award pin designed by Trifari of New York.

Each state winner will receive a $1,500 scholarship and an education trip with her school advisor to Washington, D.C., colonial Williamsburg, Va., and New York City.

A $500 scholarship will be awarded to the runner-up girls in each state. The school of the state winner receives a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

More than 300,000 young women in 1,636 of the nation's public, private and parochial schools participated in the third annual Search sponsored by General Mills. The program is designed to assist schools in education for home and family living and to emphasize through a sound scholarship award program the personal qualities and sense of values necessary to successful homemaking. A total of $106,000 in scholarships will be awarded.

The national winner will be named May 2 at the American Table banquet in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City. The scholarship of the All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow will be increased to $5,000. This year for the first time girls who took second, third and fourth in the national finals will receive $4,000, $3,000 and $2,000 scholarships respectively.

Science Research Associates of Chicago prepared and scored the examinations.